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Philadelphia's 10th Street written in English and Chinese. A numbered street is a street whose name is an ordinal number, as in Second Street or Tenth Avenue.Such forms are among the most common street names in North America, but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in Colombia, which takes the system to an extreme, and the Middle East.
The intent was to honor "Pan-American ideals and principles" [27] and the nations of Central and South America, and to encourage those countries to build consulates along the avenue. [28] It was felt at the time that the name would provide greater grandeur to a shabby street, [29] and to promote trade with the Western Hemisphere. [30]
The highest numbered street on Manhattan Island is 220th Street, but Marble Hill is also within the borough of Manhattan, so the highest street number in the borough is 228th Street. The numbering system continues in the Bronx , up to 263rd Street, though east of Van Cortlandt Park the system ends at 243rd Street. [ 1 ]
Main Street, USA Archived 2010-11-23 at the Wayback Machine from the Denver Westword; Eat, Drink and Be Merry on East Colfax; ColfaxAvenue.org - Historical Guide to the longest, wickedest street in America. Colfax Avenue Museum - Historic and one-of-a-kind artifacts related to Schuyler Colfax and the street that bears his name, Colfax Avenue.
It crosses the highest-numbered street in New York City, 271st Street, and then passes the city's easternmost point, at Langdale Street. Just past here, Union Turnpike enters Nassau County, where it intersects with Lakeville Road. It passes a shopping center in Lake Success, crosses New Hyde Park Road, and ends a block east at Marcus Avenue.
This article covers streets in Los Angeles, California between and including 41st Street and 250th Street. Major streets have their own linked articles; minor streets are discussed here. These streets run parallel to each other, roughly east–west. Streets change from west to east (for instance West 1st Street to East 1st Street) at Main Street.
Canton Avenue is a street in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood which is the steepest officially recorded public street in the United States. [1] [2] [3]Canton Avenue is 630 ft (190 m) long (the hill is about 213 feet long) and is claimed to include a 37% grade 21 feet (6.4 m) long.
Facsimile of manuscript of Peter Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the federal capital city (United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887). [2] L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C., as revised by Andrew Ellicott in 1792 Thackara & Vallance's 1792 print of Ellicott's "Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia", showing street names, lot numbers, depths of the Potoma River and ...